The Farm and Horticulture Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1984

• Citation: S.I. 1984/1924
• Sections: 5

Section 1

These regulations may be cited as the Farm and Horticulture Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1984 and shall come into operation on 12th December 1984.

Section 2

These regulations shall not apply in relation to—

(a) any work, facility or transaction included in an application received by the appropriate Minister before 12th December 1984 for a variation of a development plan approved for the purposes of the Farm and Horticulture Development Regulations 1981 (hereinafter called “ the principal regulations ”) ; or

(b) any claim for grant towards expenditure incurred for the purposes of those regulations before that date;

and these regulations shall not affect the operation of the principal regulations in relation to any such work, facility or transaction or claim for grant.

Section 3

The principal regulations shall be further amended in accordance with regulations 4 and 5 of these regulations.

Section 4

In regulation 3(1) thereof (farm development grants) there shall be substituted for subparagraph (a) the following subparagraph—

(a) has been or is to be incurred in respect of any work or facility, or part thereof, or transaction of a kind specified in—

(i) column 1 of Schedule 1;

(ii) paragraphs 1 to 13, 14(i), 14(ii), 14(iii) and 15 to 28 of column 1 of Schedule 2;

(iii) in relation to Northern Ireland only, paragraph 14(iv) of column 1 of Schedule 2, and

Section 5

In Schedule 2 thereto—

(a) in paragraph 1(ii) thereof in column 1 there shall be substituted for the words “designed and intended solely for the drying or storage of grain for consumption by livestock” the words “designed and intended for the drying or storage of grain for consumption solely by livestock” .

(b) in paragraph 7 thereof in columns 2, 3 and 4 there shall be substituted for the existing figures the figures “32.5” , “50” and “32.5” respectively;

(c) in paragraph 9 thereof in column 3 there shall be inserted after the figure “50” the symbol “*” and there shall be inserted at the end of that Schedule the following footnote—

*In accordance with regulations 12(2) this rate of grant is available only to agricultural businesses situated on severely disadvantaged land.

(d) in paragraph 12(i) and (ii) thereof in column 1 there shall be substituted for the existing descriptions the following descriptions—

(12)

(i) Provision, replacement or improvement of hedges, walls and dykes (where the walls and dykes are built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates.

(ii) Provision, replacement or improvement of permanent fences, walls and dykes (where the walls and dykes are not built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates.

(e) for paragraph 14 thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph in columns 1, 2, 3 and 4—

(14)